Why have you despised the Word of יהוה to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriyah the Ḥittite with the sword, and his wife you took to be your wife, and you have killed him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Psalm 51:16 - The Scriptures 2009 For You do not desire slaughtering, or I would give it; You do not delight in ascending offering. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou delightest not in burnt offering. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering. [I Sam. 15:22.] American Standard Version (1901) For thou delightest not in sacrifice; else would I give it: Thou hast no pleasure in burnt-offering. Common English Bible You don’t want sacrifices. If I gave an entirely burned offering, you wouldn’t be pleased. |
Why have you despised the Word of יהוה to do evil in His eyes? You have struck Uriyah the Ḥittite with the sword, and his wife you took to be your wife, and you have killed him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Slaughtering and meal offering You did not desire; You have opened my ears; Ascending offering and sin offering You did not ask for.
I do not reprove you for your slaughterings, And your ascending offerings are continually before Me.”
See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom.
My mouth recounts Your righteousness Your deliverance all the day, Though I do not know their numbers.
“But when a man acts presumptuously against his neighbour, to kill him by treachery, you are to take him even from My slaughter-place to die.
The slaughtering of the wrong ones Is an abomination to יהוה, But the prayer of the straight is His delight.
The slaughtering of the wrong is an abomination; How much more when he brings it with wickedness!
“And you shall speak all these words to them, though they do not listen to you. And you shall also call to them, though they do not answer you.
“For I delight in loving-commitment and not slaughtering, and in the knowledge of Elohim more than ascending offerings.
And if a being sins by mistake, then he shall bring a female goat a year old as a sin offering.
And take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death, but he shall certainly be put to death.
“When a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then both of them shall die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman. Thus you shall purge the evil from Yisra’ĕl.
Then Shemu’ĕl said, “Does יהוה delight in ascending offerings and slaughterings, as in obeying the voice of יהוה? Look, to obey is better than a slaughtering, to heed is better than the fat of rams.